Gradualism in Cognitive Capacity

No sharp boundary between true cognition and mere physics; continuous series of forms connects any cognitive system with humbler proto-cognitive ones via evolution and bioengineering.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Levin, Michael

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Substrate-neutral cognitive phenomenology
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Examines how cognitive and conscious capacities manifest across diverse physical substrates—biological, artificial, and unconventional—using behavioral science methods and information-theoretic frameworks.

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Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhere
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A conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.

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Gradualismconcept0.830
Core TAME pillar rejecting binary categories for cognition; treating all cognitive properties as continuous spectra.
Continuum of cognitive capacitiesconcept0.789
Core TAME tenet that cognitive capacities form a continuum without binary bright lines, essential for gradualist approach.
Scaling of Cognitive Capacity via Modularity and Feedback Loopshypothesis0.778
Processes scaling goals and stressors form positive feedback loop with modularity; both arise from and potentiate power of evolution, enabling specific predictions for cognitive capacity scaling.
Cognitive capacities evolve through continuity across natural, hybrid, and synthetic life forms using conserved bioelectric mechanismsclaim0.754
How Can Memories And Cognitive Capacities Persist Throughquestion0.752
Continuity of the Scaling of Mindconcept0.752
Claim that cognition emerges gradually across ontogeny and phylogeny with no sharp phase transition, undergirding the machine/organism symmetry argument.
Scaling of the cognitive Selfconcept0.749
The process by which smaller agents join into a larger emergent Self with expanded cognitive light cones, mediated by gap junctions.
Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, consistent with the gradualist framework; there may be no true zero.claim0.744
TAME's implication that sentience accompanies goal-directed activity, with minimal versions present in particles and scaling up in organized systems.

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